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Campbell sisters make history

Paul Mulvey

Cate and Bronte Campbell became the first sisters to take gold and silver in the same Commonwealth Games race and, for the sake of Australian swimming, just hope their sibling rivalry continues.

Cate just held off her fast finishing younger sister in the 100m freestyle on Monday in 52.68 seconds - the fastest time of the year - while Bronte's 52.86 was also fast enough to have won Olympic gold two years ago.

"Hopefully we continue to push each other along, because I think this is great for swimming in Australia," Cate said.

Emma McKeon completed the trifecta with bronze to reinforce the health of Australian sprint swimming.

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While Australia only won two gold medals in the Tollcross pool on Monday, they were won in dominant style, also claiming a clean sweep in the men's 200m backstroke.

Mitch Larkin broke a 40-year medal drought for Australia's male backstrokers, when he led compatriots Josh Beaver and Matson Lawson home, becoming the first Australian to win the event since Brad Cooper at the 1974 Games in Christchurch.

With four gold medals for the day, Australia kept its lead over England on the medals table, taking its tally to 30 gold, 25 silver and 32 bronze.

England has 27 gold in a total of 74 medals.

Australia's shooters remain on target with another pair of gold at Carnoustie.

Warren Potent finally won gold at his fourth Commonwealth Games in the men's 50m rifle prone, six years after claiming Olympic bronze.

"It has been a long time coming," the 52-year-old said.

Laetisha Scanlan, on the other hand, won at her first attempt, but did it the hard way.

Scanlan, 24, thought she had missed the women's trap semi-final and began packing away her gun before being told she was in a shoot-off for the final spot.

She won the shoot-off, won her semi and came from behind to win the gold medal match, hitting 13 out of 15 targets.

"I just had no pressure on me because I was going in last, I was the underdog," she said.

Australia's shooting tally at the Games stands at four gold and two bronze with a day of competition left.

On the second day of athletics, promising decathlete Jake Stein killed off his medal chances when two false starts in the 100m left him with no points after the first event.

Stein's massive blunder even attracted comments from dual Olympic champion Daley Thompson who tweeted "silly sod", but the 2011 world youth champion and 2012 silver medallist continued to compete.

World championship finalist Zoe Buckman's 1500m medal hopes also ended in controversy when she lost a protest after being grabbed on the arm by Kenyan runner Selah Busienei while she was well placed with 400 metres to go in her heat.

London Olympics finalist Steve Solomon eased through to the 400m semi-finals, but Melissa Breen missed the final of the 100m after finishing fifth in her semi.

The men's triples lawn bowlers lost their bronze medal game with Wales.

The Hockeyroos continued their unblemished record, beating England 3-0, the men's hockey team beat South Africa 6-0 and the netballers thrashed Trinidad and Tobago 69-34.